Acoustic Metamaterials: Absorption, Cloaking, Imaging, Time-Modulated Media, and Topological Crystals

The revised edition of this book offers an expanded review of acoustic metamaterialsnovel materials that can manipulate sound waves in surprising ways, including collimation, focusing, cloaking, sonic screening, and extraordinary transmission.

Building on the success of the first edition, which was cited over 600 times and translated into Chinese, this new edition covers both experimental and theoretical aspects of acoustic and elastic waves propagating in structured composites. It emphasizes effective properties associated with negative refraction, lensing, and cloaking. Updated chapters discuss filtering effects, extraordinary transmission, sub-wavelength imaging via tomography or time-reversal techniques, cloaking via transformation acoustics, elastodynamics, and acoustic scattering cancellation.

For this revised edition, three new chapters have been introduced to reflect recent developments in experimental acoustics and metasurfaces, resonators atop surfaces, and elastic metamaterials.

With its broad scope, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art in acoustic metamaterials research and highlights future directions and applications. It serves as an excellent introduction for advanced students and a valuable reference for professionals working in metamaterials and related fields.